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Ok, first i thought that the coverartwork is extra beautiful but now i know that also the music is one of the best i heard this year.
Favorite track: The Merry Dancers On TV.
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"Neither Is, Nor Ever Was" is the debut LP by CONSTANT FOLLOWER.
It was Mixed & Mastered by KRAMER, who co-produced the LP with band's founder, Scottish songwriter Stephen McAll.
The ten songs on this extraordinary LP were written by McAll following 10 years of isolation on the West Coast of Scotland, as he was re-learning to write and play guitar following a violent gang attack in Glasgow that left him with a devastating head injury, semi-paralyzed and with all previous memories gone.
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“The neo-folk music of Stephen McAll and his band, Constant Follower, is intimate, unvarnished. Its raw inner beauty casts a deeply affecting spell. McAll’s husky murmur and the sensitive accompaniment is a rare source of comfort, like gently flickering log fire embers on the darkest night of the year. McAll and co have composed the perfect huddling soundtrack. It’s swaddled in sadness, but always offers hope.”
- The Scotsman, 2021
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
"Neither Is, Nor Ever Was" is the debut LP by CONSTANT FOLLOWER.
It was Mixed & Mastered by KRAMER, who co-produced the LP with band's founder, Scottish songwriter Stephen McAll.
The ten songs on this extraordinary LP were written by McAll following 10 years of isolation on the West Coast of Scotland, as he was re-learning to write and play guitar following a violent gang attack in Glasgow that left him with a devastating head injury, semi-paralyzed and with all previous memories gone.
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“The neo-folk music of Stephen McAll and his band, Constant Follower, is intimate, unvarnished. Its raw inner beauty casts a deeply affecting spell. McAll’s husky murmur and the sensitive accompaniment is a rare source of comfort, like gently flickering log fire embers on the darkest night of the year. McAll and co have composed the perfect huddling soundtrack. It’s swaddled in sadness, but always offers hope.”
- The Scotsman, 2021
Includes unlimited streaming of Neither Is, Nor Ever Was
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
...more
"...an interior force to be reckoned with. I've never experienced anything quite like it. It weaves elements of the past around a future I was wholly unaware of before hearing these breath-taking songs, each one a kind of memorial to a memory that may or may not have merely been imagined or hoped into existence." - Kramer, Shimmy-Disc
“Neither is, Nor Ever Was' is a gentle, understated, fully formed and utterly beguiling collection... which resonates as widely as this album deserves to be heard.” 4/5, The Scotsman 2021
"A gorgeous listen, full of bucolic melody and personal revelation, an album unafraid to speak its truth." CLASH Magazine, 2021
"A defiant, sparkling album soaked through with gorgeous harmony. A special record. Co-produced by the legendary producer Kramer of Shimmy Disc, McAll's music is quietly powerful, resonant with both his surroundings and the pathos of his biography." Monorail Music, 2021
"Lyrically, vocally and melodically beautiful. The words are profound and poetic and remain with you long after listening." Americana UK, 2021
"A sleepy, beautifully-paced piece of slowcore – a genre defined by Minnesotan duo Low. Hard to define, there’s the feel of folk legend’s Bert Jansch’s fingerstyle guitar... beautiful, timeless..." Is This Music?, 2021
"Neither is, nor ever was succeeds as one of this season's best records on its own wonderfully simple terms." A Pessimist Is Never Disappointed, 2021
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credits
released October 1, 2021
Mixed & Mastered by KRAMER @ Noise Miami, 2021
Co-Produced by Stephen McAll & Kramer
All Songs by Stephen McAll
Andy Aquarius. I'd shied off harp after all the twee folkies were ramming their thing... but this is just insanely beautiful. Out on the wonderful Hush Hush Records. Title track is stunning. Constant Follower
This album has grown on me, and grown on me, and... Heard it on 6 Music and KEXP... instrumental, incredibly moving, elements of French cinema, ambient, electronica. Beautiful from start to finish. Constant Follower
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My god, what an absolutely incredible Suite. I'll admit, I've struggled to get into Pharoah Sanders due to diving headfirst into some of his most challenging catalogue and that never worked. This is the perfect place to restart. Floating Points is new for me and I can honestly say I've never heard synthesizer music this lush and organic before. the LSO is just perfect. This is one of those albums that any serious music fan needs in their life. The perfect swan song for the great Pharaoh! 5/5 ClassyMusicSnob